Flip The Script: Seattle Wins Second Straight Super Bowl, Brady Loses Third Straight
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- Let's play a game. Let's flip the script.
With 26 seconds left in Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch took his 25th carry into the end zone giving Seattle a 31-28 lead over New England, and more importantly, their second straight Super Bowl victory. Seattle became just the eighth team to ever repeat as Super Bowl champions, and the first to do it since the 2004 and 2005 Patriots.
Lynch was named Super Bowl MVP and Skittles were poured onto his head while he stood at the podium shouting, "I'll never talk to you!"
Russell Wilson, who won his second Super Bowl in just his third NFL season, was on his knees crying and thanking God that, "Coach didn't call a passing play."
Richard Sherman screamed "Twenty-Four" and no one really knew why.
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, who improved his post-season record to 9-4 en route to his second straight Super Bowl win deflected praise post-game.
"All we had to do was feed Beast Mode," Carroll said of his final play call. "It wasn't rocket science. We had full confidence he would score."
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was ridiculed by the media for his decision not to call a timeout, as Seattle let the clock drip before Lynch's game-winning one-yard touchdown run.
"Give credit to Seattle," Belichick said after the game. "They're a great team."
As for Tom Brady, well he lost his third straight Super Bowl, falling to 3-3 overall in the big game and 0-3 post-Spy Gate. After the game Brady, 37, took responsibility for the loss saying, "I can't afford to throw multiple interceptions in a game of this magnitude."
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As you know, that's not how it went.
Instead, the Seahawks' incomprehensible decision to throw the ball from the one-yard line---which resulted in a game-clinching Patriots interception---is being deemed by most as the worst call in NFL history.
Instead, the Patriots won their fourth Super Bowl and Brady is being referred to as the greatest quarterback ever.
However, when the Seahawks were ready to snap the ball just 36-inches away from another Super Bowl title, all Brady could do was watch---like everyone else not in the game.
Thanks to the severely idiotic pass play called by Seattle and a tremendous defensive play by Malcolm Butler, Brady's legacy changed from controversial to immortal while he stood on the sideline watching with a nervous pit in his stomach, just like the rest of New England.
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As a whole, the media puts too much emphasis in championships when evaluating the greatness of individual athletes and developing his or her legacy, especially with NFL quarterbacks.
Football is the ultimate team game, but somewhere along the way the quarterback has taken over the role of hero or goat, regardless of the game's undertaking.
Brady was special once again in Super Bowl XLIX and he is undoubtedly one of the best we've ever seen at what he does, but my mind was set on that way before an unprecedented one-yard interception occurred.
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